On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Bight. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as loop or fix and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Bight in a sentence
Bight meaning
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
- A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
Using Bight
- The main meaning on this page is: A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf. | A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
- Useful related words include: loop, fix, fasten, midpoint.
- In the example corpus, bight often appears in combinations such as: the bight, australian bight, bight of.
Context around Bight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 11 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bight
- In this selection, "bight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, australian, seine, new, village, day and instead stand out and add context to how "bight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include great australian bight and a blind bight home. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bight" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Construction for the New Bight Airport underway. (7 words)
Blocks go up on New Bight International Airport…. (8 words)
Kellington waxes lyrical about the creation of his Canto Bight character Snook Uccorfay. (13 words)
The Port, which is in Stann Creek district had been abandoned for quite some years now and the Briceno administration established a ministerial subcommittee group that would study the feasibility of developing a port and marina at Commerce Bight. (39 words)
The second stop will be at Foxy’s Bar and Restaurant on Jost Van Dyke, the third at Pirates Bight on Norman Island, the fourth at the Tortola Pier Park, and the final at Leverick Bay on Virgin Gorda. (39 words)
Components A: open loop B: closed loop C: turn D:round turn E: two round turns :further Bight : A bight is any curved section, slack part, or loop between the ends of a rope, string, or yarn. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Everything will be more deep south – Mango Creek, Placencia, and also Seine Bight Village, as they are celebrating their 3-days Annual Seine Bight Day anniversary.
The 73% of South Australians who want world heritage protection for the Great Australian Bight can have faith that the Greens are fighting with them to protect the bight and stop this project.
All of these knots can also be made in a slipped form by starting with a bight and/or by completing the final tuck with a bight instead of the end.
Components A: open loop B: closed loop C: turn D:round turn E: two round turns :further Bight : A bight is any curved section, slack part, or loop between the ends of a rope, string, or yarn.
Around 1948 Bill signed on to work at sea for a deep water trawler working in the Great Australian Bight for the season.
Construction for the New Bight Airport underway.
The fathiers first appear on Cantonica in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, where they are being mistreated on the Canto Bight racetracks.
The Port, which is in Stann Creek district had been abandoned for quite some years now and the Briceno administration established a ministerial subcommittee group that would study the feasibility of developing a port and marina at Commerce Bight.
The Tooradin Fire Brigade will be assisting Warneet-Blind Bight Fire Brigade CFA with a carefully planned prescribed burn as part of the preparations for the upcoming summer season.
And on Stockton Beach, the massive bulk carrier had run aground in the bight.
Blocks go up on New Bight International Airport….
The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) advised that the locations which were reopened on Thursday (July 4) are Kingston Harbour, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios/Reynolds Pier, Port Antonio, Portland Bight/Old Harbour Bay and Noranda Bauxite Pier.
A brazen intruder has been caught on video peering into a security camera in the yard of a Blind Bight home.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor has dumped plans to conduct deep-sea oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight, about 400 kilometres off the South Australian coast, saying the plan is no longer "commercially competitive".
The name, Biafra, has its origin from the Bight of Biafra, now the Gulf of Guinea, a Portuguese name representing the West Coast from where waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean.
Wilderness Society South Australian Director Peter Owen says the Wilderness Society welcomes Equinor’s decision to responsibly withdraw from the marine wilderness that is the Great Australian Bight.
People are worried about what oil and gas exploration will do to the Great Australian Bight.
The company also acknowledged that oil was spotted at Long Point Bight, close to Little Abaco Island, about 50 miles northeast of the spill, but the source of that oil was still being investigated.
Kellington waxes lyrical about the creation of his Canto Bight character Snook Uccorfay.
The second stop will be at Foxy’s Bar and Restaurant on Jost Van Dyke, the third at Pirates Bight on Norman Island, the fourth at the Tortola Pier Park, and the final at Leverick Bay on Virgin Gorda.
Common combinations with bight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: